Sharp County record., 1887-09-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

siderable damage. The new insane asy-
INN was struck by the whirlwind and sew
eral of the buildings unroofed and CHM
news blown down, causing loss Oh So'VVo'
SIMON CAMERON and General Hawley are
hack from Europe. They bring con1lct-
inc renorts of the condition of Mr. Blalne's
health.
| Mas. CLEVELAND declines to present the
flags to the New York fire department, as
invited by Mayor Hewitt, on the ground
that the President has no part IN the cere-
mony.
! TIE thirteenth annual convention OF the
limited States Railway Mail Service
Mutual Benefit Association began three
davs, session in Detroit, Mich, on the
9th.
EX-GOVERNOR AIKEN of South Carolina,
died on the 7th, at Flat Rock, N. c.
A REVOLUTION is reported in progress IN
| Central America.
THE New York Workingmen's assembly
convention met at Rochester on the 'tn.
RUMoRs that Prince Ferdinand is about
10 abandon the Bulgarian throne are de-
MED.
FIVE men were killed by an explosion OF
naphtha on the schooner War Eagle at
Boston, on the 7th.
ONE hundred and sixteen Of the victims
of the theater fire at Exeter, England
were buried on the 7th.
NEAR Ceredo, W. Va, on the night of
the 9th, an old couple named Bush were
shot by three assassins for purposes OF
robbery.
Mr.. BLAINE has concluded to remain an
other week at Homburg. His movements
thereafter are uncertain.
THE trouble between the Italian dele
gates to the International Medical con-
sress at Washington has been amlcably
| settled.
BY the decision of Judge Brannon at
| Davenport, Ia, on the 7th, James NJ.
Patrick obtains control of his child, winch
has been contested so bitterly by Mrs.
| Patrick's mother.
THE machine shops Of the Barren Fork
! Coal Company at Somerset, KY, were
burned on the 7th Loss will exceed $lOO,'
| 900.
THE next annual session of the Ameri-
can Shipping and Industrial League, Hon.
Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama, president,
will be held in Washington in December
next, and it is anticipated that representa-
tiyes will be present from all parts OF the
country and all branches of industry.
Mr.. RANDALL left Washington on the
7th. without comforting with the President
on the tariff question.
A FIRE started in a residence in New
burg, Ont, on the 9th, and spread to the
business portion of the village which was
soon entirely destroyed. The loss will
reach $25O,OO0; insurance not known. Mr..
]. Wells was probably fatally burned.
ALL the miners at Wilson & Co.'s Mont
gomery mines, six miles east of Washing
ton, Ind, struck on the 7th for an advance
of six cents per ton. A hundred men are
thrown out of employment, as these mines
furnish the coal for the Ohio & Mississippi
engines.
LITTLE credence is placed in the report
ed collision of Russians and ChlneSe on
the frontier, near Kashgar.
THE steamer Plover arrived at st. Johns,
Newfoundland, -on-the 9TH. from the north,
and reports a great storm along the
Labrador coast. She brings back the
crews of eight fishing vessels wrecked
there, and there are fears that many
others were lost.
THE railway switchmen of indianapolis,
Ind, have presented number OF de-
mands to their employers, the principal
of which are an advance OF pay to the
wages current in Chicago, and the addl-
tion of one man to each of the switching
crews as now organized.
PAPERS were placed in the hands of the
sheriff at Milwaukee, Wis, on the 7th, IN
suit for large amount, begun by the
Third National Bank of New York against
John Z. Burton, the Gogebec iron king.
The exact amount involved is not known,
as the papers could not be served. Mr..
Burton is in New York City.
BY a waterspout On Careless creek, in
Meagre County, Mont, on the 9Th, 1,2O
sheep, principally lambs, were drowned
on one ranch. Much damage was done to
the buildings also.
AN attachment for $3O0,OO0 was placed
upon the mills and property of the Woon-
socket (R. L. Rubber Company, on the
7th, by Thomas John Shipman Green, of
| New York. The attachment is the last Of
three which have been issued within
twenty days by the same person, and the
company's property in New York, Boston
and Rhode Island is now under the care of
the sheriff
FIRE started on the morning of the 7th
in Joseph Jackson's saw mill, part of the
Grant Locomotive works building at Pat
erson, N. j., and soon communicated to
every part of the building. OF the Grant
works nothing remains but the erecting
shop, the foundry and part of the new
machine shop. The loss is estimated at
$50 900. and six hundred hands are thrown
out of employment.
COLONEL SwITzLER, chief of the Bureau
of Statistics, has prepared an important
report on wool.
JEFFERSON DAVIS has written letter,
in which he declares in favor of local OPP
ton.
A FErE in honor of the centenary Of the
American Constitution will be held OF the
CRYSTAL palace at Sydenham, England,
on September II.
THE doctors at Washington are indig-
| nant at reports which have been sent out
of their differences.
CONGRESSMAN PERRY BELMONT of New
York, is one suggestion for successor to
Governor Porter as assistant Secretary of
State.
THE Queen has conferred the order of
knighthood on DIR. Morell Mackenzie, the
eminent surgeon, who is attending the
Crown Prince of Germany on his journey
to the Tyrol.
COMMISSIONER OBERLEY, of the Civil-Ser-